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Somehow, magically, some people managed to write C software that I now use for three decade with not a single crash in all this time.

• vor_ 3mo ago
  What software would that be, and how do you know there have never been memory-related bugs and vulnerabilities in it?
  • uecker 3mo ago
    Basically all C programs I use, shells, editors, terminals, etc. But I do not claim that there "never has been a memory-related bug" but that it is not "riddled with" memory-related bugs, which I would expect would have manifested in at least one segfault over all these years, which I did not observe.
    • rustfreeforme 3mo ago
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      • whytevuhuni 2mo ago
        Many Rust proponents are experienced C programmers (me as an example). We speak of the horrors of C/C++ precisely because we've seen both sides (3 sides more specifically), and can compare.
        • rustfreeforme 2mo ago
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